Monday, March 17, 2008

Anti-China protest shadows trade deal

Anti-China protest shadows trade dealThe Government is distancing the bloody crackdown on Tibetan protesters from a historic free-trade agreement set to be signed with China within weeks by the Prime Minister, Helen Clark. Trade Minister Phil Goff yesterday said he was "concerned" about the worst riots in the Tibetan region in almost 20 years and by at least 10 deaths in the protests during the weekend.However, he divorced the events from ongoing trade negotiations with China. "The Government is concerned about events in Tibet and the level of violence being reported. That issue is being dealt with separately from trade negotiations with China."

Do we really want a free trade deal with a communist totalitarian repressive state currently committing a cultural genocide inside a country they invaded? A free trade deal that forces us to accept Chinese immigration as part of the deal – who inserts that into trade negotiations? Ironically it is enforced Chinese immigration that is the major conflict in Tibet, aren’t we just lining up to agree to do something voluntarily that took armed invasion in Tibet?

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THE CHINESE BUILT A 4000 KM RAILWAY (to tibet) UP AT 5000 METRES TO SHANGHAI OR BEIJING I CAN'T REMEMBER WHICH BUT,HEY THE DIRECT FLIGHTS FROM CHINA WITH CHINESE FLIGHT ATTENDANTS MIGHT BE A SIGN OF THINGS TO COME AS FAR AS 1 WAY TRAFFIC GOES.